Athoracophorus maculosus

Athoracophorus maculosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Athoracophoridae
Genus: Athoracophorus
Species:
A. maculosus
Binomial name
Athoracophorus maculosus
Burton, 1963

Athoracophorus maculosus is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Athoracophoridae, the "leaf-veined" slugs. This species was first described by David Winn Burton in 1963.[1] The holotype specimen, collected at Karamea Bluff in 1949, is held at Te Papa.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 D W Burton (11 February 1963). "A Revision of the New Zealand and Subantarctic Athoracophoridae". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, zoology. 3 (6): 53. ISSN 0372-1396. Wikidata Q88303769.
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • NZETC


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